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Unfortunately like many people I guess my first contact with your good selves is with a problem which I'm hoping you may be able to assist with.

I downloaded wondershare converter and I have since been having a lot of problems with my laptop which runs MS Windows 8 64 bit edition. I mainly use Chrome so became rather suspicious when my default search engine had changed from google to yahoo and it was mentioning spigot in the address bar. I also noted that my avast anti-virus Chrome plugin had been disabled. I used ccleaner to remove spigot and adwcleaner to remove any other references thereof. Rather stupidly only used windows own add remove for wondershare and I still seem to have the support bit installed (which I'd like to get rid of). My reason for placing my enquiry here is as it doesn't seem easy to remove I doubt it's 100% above board.

I have run a search and received hits for wondershare in the following locations:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Wondershare
C:\Program Files (x86)
C:\Program Data
C:\Users\James\Documents
C:\Users\James\AppData\Roaming
C:\Users\James\AppData\Local
C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\
And in my history

After some difficulty I have managed to run a malware bytes check which is still running at the moment.

Unfortunately as it is 1am here and I have work in the morning I will need to update you later on the progress of the malware bytes scan.

Please feel free to respond and I will take any advised action when I return from work tomorrow.

Thank you for your response. The plot thickens it would appear that even though the program had been removed through Add/Remove and the PC rebooted Wondershare Studio was still working in the background (I had to close it in Task Manager). I have removed those files but do you know of anywhere the files lurk elsewhere - I'd like to make sure its gone.

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Hey Guys - in case you haven't figured it out yet, I just wanted you to know - I've had this EXACT same problem, and my custom-built OEM version of Windows 7 professional (64-bit) was giving me ALL kinds of headache due to this stupid F**king PARASITE. So I opened my msconfig startup services window - after spending 2+ hours on the phone with Norton, which helped but STILL wasn't able to get rid of every trace of this bugger. My right-click was taking up to 30 SECONDS TO PROCESS per-item, WINDOWS EXPLORER was constantly crashing (i.e., "Windows Explorer has stopped working".. not internet explorer, windows explorer...) and "Computer" was taking up to 1-5 minutes to load, etc. etc... Like I said, I built this thing myself and NEVER experienced any symptoms even close to this.

So...

After uninstalling the program normally, as some of you have noticed, the "Wondershare Helper Compact.exe" will continue to stick-around, and even showup as a startup-service. The way to get rid of it - and I'm telling you, the results were INSTANTENOUS - is not just to do a search for every trace of it in your systems-folder, but ALSO to search for it in the registry.

I found it, and it is safe to do. Simply press the start button, type "run" and hit enter. When the Run dialog appears, type "regedit." Once you're in the big registry window with all those folders, simply collapse them all, select the Computer, and then under "Edit," select FIND. Type WONDERSHARE. Once you've located it (it should be in some kind of random location like "HKEY_Classes_Root, TypeLib," etc..) just right-click and select DELETE. Then go back to your computer, conduct a search, and whatever traces of it you find still lingering (including the setup.exe), DELETE THEM. Be sure not to delete the "run" folder, or anything else that doesn't explicitly say "wondershare" accidentally. Your computer will go back to normal in an instant!

I just created an account here b/c I had/have a wondershare problem too.

Broni - I did just as you advised, and it worked for me also; thanks much. But then I also tried Citizen Shane's suggestion, and when I right-click and delete, I get a dialog warning that deleting certain registry values could cause system instability. Confirming the delete results in another dialog "Unable to delete all specified values". Thus I still have WSHelper.exe knocking around in my registry. I get the same result for files (no idea) called Wondershare Helper Compact (no extension), Image Host.exe (in two locations), Video Editor (no extension), a Wondershare folder with three files, one of which is a "uninstall jump page" (cbs.wondershare....etc; I'm not putting the entire url here). These are all identified as type REG_SZ files - I do not know what that means. Seems that I can't get the W-share stuff entirely off. The problem I've had - W-share causing slow startup - seems to have been resolved with Broni's course of action. How concerned should I be?

HI guys, I know this is a very late reply and you have all probably moved on by now but what fixed it for me was just literally removing all those files that someone said after the Control Panel uninstallation!!!